Smoothy or smoothie? Green or not? Can you get one in Vegas?

After a week in Vegas I am not feeling particularly healthy, so I have decided to try to eat more veggies. I’m going to try to create my own green smoothie by blending spinach, romaine lettuce, some other green thing I forgot the name of, carrots, apples, bananas, oatmeal, yogurt, OJ, and cranberry juice. One of those green monsters will be one meal/day.

If I survive the first one I’ll let you know. To make the green smoothy I unpacked my Cuisinart for the first time in many years (I hope it still works). It was wrapped with chunks of the NYTimes from July 23, 1998. I’m sure it was heading in to a storage facility at the time. It hasn’t seen the light of day since then. It was a bit of a time capsule. The paper discussed DeBartalo’s leaving of the 49er’s, a Chinese gymnast that fell and would probably never walk again, the explosion of “ancient drugs” (such as ginseng) on the health/supplement market, and Alan Greenspan telling us to be cautious about the market. There weren’t articles about 9/11, Iraq, North Korea, global warming, terror alert levels, or political corruption. Oh wait…that last one was in there. Oh well.

I’ve done no exercise at all (other than walking a million miles) in the past week. Today was the typical sunny and 74 degrees so I went out for a run. It was close to pitch black when I got back at six. Ugh. I didn’t feel very good. Tomorrow a light workout. There is a 5k this Saturday morning. Should be around 40 degrees at that time.

And if interested (and you have read this far)…a few shots from Vegas.